Extinction troubled us long before we had a name for it. The original mascot for the loss of species, even before the concept was understood, was the dodo. The bird — fat and flightless ...

There’s been a lot of lip flapping going on during the past month or so about Big Bird’s owner, Sesame Workshop.

As for the dodo, the Nicobar Pigeon is the closest living relative, and the Solitaire, a type of extinct bird that was found ...

Extinction is still forever, but scientists at the biotech company Colossal Biosciences are trying what they say is the next best thing ...

We will discover new tools, new ways that we can help species that are still alive but in danger of becoming extinct.” ...

Asia and North America until they went extinct around 4,000 years ago. Colossal made a splash in 2021 when it unveiled an ambitious plan to revive the woolly mammoth and later the dodo bird.

The blue-headed quail dove is a uniquely ancient species with no close relatives and is now on the brink of extinction. At ...

The dodo was surprisingly also a type of dove ... funded by the National Science Foundation to discover the causes of bird extinction in the Caribbean over the last several thousand years.

This was an alarming start to the idea of gene de-extinction. As we know from movies like The Thing, digging up frozen creatures from the ice is a bad idea. Many scientists felt that recovering the ...

but also the dodo bird and Tasmanian tiger. Such “de-extinction efforts,” as Colossal likes to refer to them as, require collaboration with scientists, government representatives, Indigenous ...

Extinction troubled us long before we had a name for it. The original mascot for the loss of species, even before the concept was understood, was the dodo. The bird — fat and flightless ...